SAP Crystal Reports licensing with GADS Open Source

The question has been raised about SAP Crystal Reports licensing with GADS Open Source.

SAP does NOT require that you purchase licenses for Crystal Reports when running our GADS Open Source reports.  This applies as well as for reports from any other client application built with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 that uses Crystal Reports (reference: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70bd6328-4128-2d10-7882-d7b95418dbaa?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true ).